Hosea 2 : 1 (LXXEN)
Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.
Hosea 2 : 2 (LXXEN)
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:
Hosea 2 : 3 (LXXEN)
that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.
Hosea 2 : 4 (LXXEN)
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.
Hosea 2 : 5 (LXXEN)
And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced them: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.
Hosea 2 : 6 (LXXEN)
Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will *Gr. build up stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.
Hosea 2 : 7 (LXXEN)
And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was *Gr. well for me better with me than now.
Hosea 2 : 8 (LXXEN)
And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold images for Baal.
Hosea 2 : 9 (LXXEN)
Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.
Hosea 2 : 10 (LXXEN)
And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.
Hosea 2 : 11 (LXXEN)
And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Hosea 2 : 12 (LXXEN)
And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.
Hosea 2 : 13 (LXXEN)
And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.
Hosea 2 : 14 (LXXEN)
Therefore, behold, I will cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak *Gr. to her heart; Hebraism comfortably to her.
Hosea 2 : 15 (LXXEN)
And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.
Hosea 2 : 16 (LXXEN)
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.
Hosea 2 : 17 (LXXEN)
And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.
Hosea 2 : 18 (LXXEN)
And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell *Gr. in hope safely.
Hosea 2 : 19 (LXXEN)
And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgement, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;
Hosea 2 : 20 (LXXEN)
and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
Hosea 2 : 21 (LXXEN)
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;
Hosea 2 : 22 (LXXEN)
and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael.
Hosea 2 : 23 (LXXEN)
And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will *Alex. pity the unpitied one love her that was not loved, and will Ro 9:25 say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.

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